Cultivator.



H. L. BELL.

GULTIVATOR.

APPLICATION FILED PEB. 12,19144, 1,108.3 l 9. Patented Aug. 25, 1914.

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APPLICATION FILED FEB.12| 1914. 1,108,319. Patented Aug.25,1914.

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E E E Haz, ri wil/wwwa J :11E MORRIS PETERS Ca.. PHDTO-LITHO.. WASHINGTON, DA 'L' as on top yof the sameand to remove the grass and weeds from the sides of the beds, the brushes or cultivator members of this machine have their peripheries so shaped to conform to the top and sides of the beds. As shown in Fig. 3 the end brushes 2e have the wires thereof consecutively increased in length from about the intermediate portion of the brush to the outer end thereof whereby an outwardly flaring periphery to the brush is formed. These elongated wires or bristles on the brush operate upon the slope ing sides `of the bed and thus treat the soil lforming the sides in the same manner as do Ythe remaining brushes treat the top of the bed between the rows or drills.

For the purpose of adjusting the shaft 21 vand the brushes vertically, so as to insure the proper adjustment of the brushes over fthe bed, the sleeve 15 carried upon the frame is provided vwith one or more arms 27 which are adjustably fixed to the sleeve 15 by set vscrews or vthe like as shown7 and which have transverse bearings in their outer ends ythrough which the shaft 21 freely passes. Itis preferable to provide three of these arms 2T, as shown in Fig. 3, one for each of the shaft sections, so that the sections of the shaft v21 may be raised without throwing the same out of alinenient. The sleeve 15 has 'fixed vthereto a hand lever 28 extending upwardly into proximity with the seat 18 and is adapted to move against one side of a sector 29 fixed to the tongue 13 by a brace 30, Ior the like. The hand lever 28 is locked to the sector by the usual dog or pawl 31 engaging the teeth of the sector. It is thus seen that by swinging the lever 28 forward the arms 27 are raised so as to raise the shaft 21 and the brushes mounted thereon.

In the use of this cultivator the collars 12 are loosened on the axle 10 and the traction wheels 11 are spaced apart sufficiently so as to travel in the alleys between the beds. The collars 12 are now fixed against the opposite sides ofthe traction wheels 11 so as to hold the same in adjusted position. The sprockets 22 on the axle sections 21 are now brought into alinement with the sprockets 19 on the traction wheels and secured by set screws in adjusted position. The brushes 24 are now adjusted upon the shaft 21 so as to vleave spaces between the brushes for the rows or drills, the end brushes 241 being adjusted to engage over the top edges ofthe bed and against the sloping sides thereof. If found necessary the intermediate brushes 24 maybe divided by separating the hub sections 25 yand 26 thereof so as to accommodate a larger number of rows or drills on the bed particularly when the rows or drillsare rather close together. It is'of course understood that any desired 'number of the brushes 241 may be placed upon the shaft 21V so as to accommodatethe cultivator to beds varying in width and to rows or drills of any number on the bed and spaced at various distances apart.

The machine or implement is adapted to be drawn by a pair of draft animals, the same working in the alleys at either side of the bed. As the traction wheels l1` turn they rotate the sect-ions of the shaft 21 through the chain connection 23 and sprockets 19 and 22 at the opposite sides of the cultivator. The brushes24 are rotated at a relatively high rate of speed and are so adj usted as to engage in the bed sufficiently to break up and pulverize the earth and to lift out and dest-roy the line grass and weeds growing on the bed.

1t not infrequently happens that the rows or drills of the truck beds do not lie in true straight lines, and under 'these conditions it is impossible to draw the cultivator over the 'bed and direct the brushes between :the rows or drills without injuring lthe plants.

To overcome this difficulty the improved cultivator is provided with an extension lever 32 secured to the yhandl lever 28"and` `extending rearwardly therefrom whereby the operator of the cultivator may walkfbehind the implement and control fthe height of the brushes without necessarily being seated. To further control the implement when the operator is walking, the hangers 2O 'are provided with a yoke 33 extending rearwardly and upwardly from the hangers and terminating at its middle portioni'in a rearwardly and horizontally'extending handle adapted to be grasped by theoperator to swing the implement-sidewise todirect the vbrushes in between the plants when irregular.

That is claimed f is- 1. In a cultivator, a frame, an axle on the frame, hangers on the axle, a shaft journaled in the free ends of the hangers, traction wheels mounted on the axle adapted vfor adjustment toward and from each-other,-dr`iv ing means between the axle and the shaft and adapted for adjustment withthe traction wheels a transversel extensible rotar Vearth working implement "mounted on "the shaft upon the rotation of 'said wheels, said wheels and said driving `means being adjustable toward and frome'ac'h other Ion the axle and the shaft whereby to accommodate 'the various adjustments of the earth workf ing implement.

3. In a cultivator, a shaft, an earth working implement on said shaft, a frame, a plw rality oil? hinged, arme on the iframe having bearings in their outer ends for the reoep tion of said shaft, a handle connected to said. arms for raising and lowering the same, traction wheels on the frame adapted for adjustment toward and from each other7 and rotating means on the frame connected to said traction wheels `ancl to sacl shaft whereby to rotate the latter upon the movement oil? the traction wheels, said rotating means being adjustable with saicl traction wheels and upon saicl shaft to accommodate the rotating means to the adjustment of the wheels and the width of said implement.

4t. In a eultivator, a frame, an axle on the frame, a shaft mounted lor `acljustment in the l'rame, a laterally extensible earth working implement on the shaft, traction wheels on the axle, and driving eonneetionsbetweenI the traction wheels and the opposite enclsof` nesses. y y

HARRY L. BELL. Vitneeses t T. D. SAVAGE, J. M. CUBRIR.

Copies of this `patent. may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Cummssiuner of Patenti. Washing-ton, D. C. 

